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After the Revolutionary War, the reformist wing of the American Revolutionists began to inscribe plans for striking at the heart of colonial inequalities and conservative governmental structures. The reformers were met with plenty of resistance from social, economic, and political conservatives, and they by no means reached all their goals. Nobody put pen to paper to carve out a systematic plan for thoroughgoing reform. Rather, different groups, different men and women, different organizations, each with their own experiences and hopes for the future, espoused a variety of changes.

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As dawn broke on June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion fleet became visible crossing the choppy waters of the English Channel to France. None of those who took part in D-Day, whether soldier, sailor, or airman, would ever forget the sight. It was by far...

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By the middle of the eighteenth century both the British and the French believed that a military contest in North America was inevitable as an element of their global rivalry. Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia and other colonial governors were in constant correspondence concerning the French threat. In 1753, Dinwiddie sent Major George Washington, his newly appointed militia adjutant of the southern district of Virginia, to confront the French.